Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1887-09-23
ONE LAW FOR ALL.

SN"eH W hloTe tHHH InhketH HulEWhlOt
But there are some truths that cannot be
too often iteralcd. There is no wrong
that can be too often exposed. Let us take
hnsly glance nj some OF the things that in
the name Of all Of ns, and by virtue Of the
authority and power Of all OF ne, have been
done TO further the interests OF some OF ia +.
In The very outset, the national govern
ment recognized negro slavery. That
meant, that, by law, the free labor of tie
land should compete with servile labor,
that the few men who had the means To
own human beings should have an advan-
tage over the multitude of men who lad TO
rely upon their own labor. At the cost of
some millions Of lives and of some bi lions
OF money, we partly paid for the wicked
ness oil human slavery. Partly paid, for
are we not still weighted OH the upward
march will, The problem Of the freedman
ns lie relates TO industrial, social, mori
and political affairs?
Again, at the beginning of our national
life we began to copy from the despotisms
from which we had just happily escaped.
We gave bounlies from taxes levied upon
all TO enable few to engage in profitable
business. We did more. We put shack
els upon trade and thus fettered the twin
brother Of trade-indnstry. We put fines
upon the enterprise OF the many in order
that some branches of human effort might
wax strong. All this was done in imita-
tion OF the methods of government which
we had Cast of through mn ardnous, bloody
and sustained conflict. We did not
then sense that the despoiIsm which we had
escaped had become 30 through the ba'e-
ful influences of the spirit OF favoritism, or
protectionism, which we early took TO our
bosoms and nonri-hed with tender solicit
tude. II was viper that long ago reach
ed maturity and turned it's fangs upon its
guardians. We feel Its tortures today
more bitterly than ever, yet we know not
how to cast il off.
As though the demon OF discord was not
rowing trouble enough for us to harvest,
we began giving subsidies TO railroads out
OF the lands of the people, not bv acres,
but in the aggregate by states. We put
the control OF the public purse strings into
the hands Of few bankers. The Glasses
who had thriven by having fines put upon
trade, stimulated others in other enterprises
to petition the law.making power to do the
some for them. What began bad, grew Ia
be worse, yet all the while the nation pro-
grepsed in aggregate wealth. The treas
ures that nature had laid up from the dawn
OF time, We brought forth from their hid
ing places, and the total was vaster thar
Imagination could have pictured. Bu
who had title TO the most of it? No
those who had earned it, but those whit
had got patent from The government tt
take the most of ii IN tolls.
AS mighty aids to this process the indi
vidual states and the municipalities Of the
states, Initiating the example Of the gen.
eral government, began 10 grant fayors to
come ut the expense of all. Then ther,
grew up mighty crop Of corporations
pnblic and private, that had powers of ex.
tortion. because the demon OF favoritisn
blinded the eyes OF men 30 that they cGuld
not zee beyond their present.
All this was accomplished and scarcel
a murmnr was raised against ii. Here an
there wise man upon the bench or som
student from his closet, muttered an nd.
monition. But nature was 80 bounteou
with the stores that she had been ssvinl
up for ages that no one was hungry, NJ
one was absolutely unhappy. But the tim
came, and only very few years ago, wler
the candle, SO recklessly burned nt boil
ends, gave warming of early darkness
Nature was not go profnse as formerly
"Reach forth, pluck and eat" the forme
generous invitation, had been changed tc
the stern command: "Dig. plant, waite
and nurture or starve." And still thu
parasites, with their laws, their franchises
and their commissions 10 take toll, wer,
more numerous than ever. When ihey
were done with the profferlngs of toll iher,
was not enough left for the toiIer.
Then, for the first time, there was com
plant. Toll organized and asked favor'
of the government. A doubtful expert
llent hut a most natural one. 1t imita ed
its opp essors, and thus recog nized I'll,
justice OF the very evil which had enslavei
1.-THE evil OF class-legislalion. Toll
should have demanded the repeal of the
enactmen,s which gave any class the right
TO levy tribute of all others should have
insisted that franchises oblaiued by fraud
and in violation Of human rights should
be annnled or modified to serve instead
OF plundering the people,
But organized toll, honestly misled, saw
fit to fight wrong with wrong. 1t cannot
win that way. In the awful conflict now
raging il may see the right way, 1T may
teach the old arislocracy of the favored
the right way. Out Of ii may come justice
But this much il certain, legislation for
some and not for all, whether in the inter
et OF oil or Of capital, is no cure. 1t is
oil On the fire. 1t Is strong drink ior q
fever. II is the hetchel harrassing the in
famed wound. We must be done with
attempting 10 cure the evils OF bad laws by
making more bad laws. Repeats not ell.
aclmenls are the cure. One law for all il
our salvation. In this is liberty, prosper
ity, happiness, equity and safety. If we
cannot see it except through the tears oil
distress and grief, why, then, 1t must be
so. But when our eyes shall behold the
truth, we all read il in the injunction
One law for all."
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